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The parable of the cards

- Franklin Sanders - The Money Changer

Please let me take this a step further if I may... because I see an opportunity to highlight a particular concern of mine.

Let us ignore for the moment that Government and Industry are not powerless tools of the Banker. They exert considerable influence over Everyman in their own right. And by exercising these, can secure for themselves a much more favorable position than that available to Everyman. In time Government and even Industry would lie under the tree all day with Banker sipping coconut milk while Everyman collected the coconuts for everyone.

Once deprived of everything, Everyman and his impoverished friends will likely not stand by idly under the coconut tree naked and watch Banker's depraved consumption of all that they once owned. As history has shown, they will rise up and take it back, and by force of numbers overcome their oppressors.

And there was a time when this may have even held some sway with Banker (as well as Government and Industry). Since Everyman represents the majority of the population, they represented the majority of power. When sufficiently motivated, Everyman and his friends could take up their pitchforks and rifles and transform into an undeniable force, capable of overthrowing Banker, Government, and even Industry should the need arise. This helped Everyman to keep the others in check.

But then Industry gave birth to Technology - a boon to Industry and Everyman which delighted Banker and Government no end. Government, with funding provided by Banker, consigned Industry (and regulated it) to use Technology to help mitigate the threat of Everyman, even while Everyman was basking in the joy of Technology. They made better and better weapons. After all, Banker and Government could not have their privileges undermined at any moment by hoards of adequately armed Everymen.

"I like not the way that Everyman is looking at us. Government, you must force Industry to surrender his pocketknife so that we may make pointy sticks together. Tell Everyman that we need these sticks for defence in case the Island is invaded. These pointy sticks we will use to prevent Everyman from taking back his clothes and shoes. For without these assets we will have nothing to lend". And it was so.

Then Banker did rejoice - doubly so, for when he realised that not only had he gained ownership of all things present and future, and ensnared Government and Industry to do his bidding.... but they had created for him Technology - a wondrous grandchild that has succeeded not only in increasing their profits but ensuring their safety and position. In time Government, Industry and Technology distracted Everyman sufficiently from even being aware that any of this is going on.

When Everyman finally looks up from his iPad and sees what Banker has done it will be too late.

They may take up their pitchforks and rifles once again. But this time Banker and Government need not even put down their coconut flavored cocktails or raise an eyebrow. Technology has given them the means to put down a revolution at the push of a button - literally. Drones and missiles could easily combat any uprising. A myriad of surveillance technologies could predict and undermine such an event well before it got off the ground. The controlled media would de-moralise, de-motivate and alienate its supporters. Electronic banking would easily cripple its funding.

Banker and Government probably feel more comfortable than they ever have in all of history. Lucky for us they still think they need our approval... at least on the surface, for now.

Ironically, the efforts of Everymen themselves, working with Technology, employed by Industry, at the whims of Government and under the control of Banker, who may ultimately be their own undoing. A tragedy to make Shakespeare envious.

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Beginning of the headline :That article drew an astonishing number of responses - some questioning and intelligent, some appallingly ignorant, and some outright rude. Amazingly, some of the most ignorant and rude came from people who (I take it) fancy themselves the friends of silver, gold, and sound money. The Internet, it seems, has not made people wiser or more knowledgeable. It has only made propagating ignorance faster and more efficient. As Will Rogers observed, "The trouble with people is not what they don't know, but that they know so much that just ain't so."... Read More

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